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Record ID: NMS-28D354
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver object of post-medieval date. It is a cylindrical tube, with a closed undecorated base with a central scar as if a loop has been torn away. The base projects to form a rim about 2mm deep, which has an obliquely beaded edge (resembling cabling) which is now very worn. Above, the sides are of thin sheet, with the top cut into a zig-zag of eight V-shaped cut-outs and eight projecting points which are now mostly bent inwards. A crack runs from the base of one of the cut-outs to just above the base. The sides are decorated with a engraved zig-zag border just below the top edge, then …
Created on: Thursday 26th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-AEAC9D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of flat copper-alloy plate, 1.3mm thick and approximately rectangular, 23 x 12 mm. One face is smooth and the other rougher. One long edge is cut into with four V-shaped notches, larger at one end and getting smaller towards the other. The other long edge has a partial circle (c. 6mm diameter) cut out of the corner closer to the smaller notches. Other edges appear to be broken (worn breaks). The zig-zag serrations are very slightly bevelled or rounded, on the smoother face only. There is a green patina and the object appears of some age, although precise date and fun…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-9E59E5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of bent copper-alloy strip, roughly rectangular but tapering from 8.9 to 7.6mm in width along its length, which is c. 38mm. Both ends are probably broken, but the breaks are neat and worn. The surfaces are not flat but appear hammered. On one face, the narrower end is covered with fine parallel closely spaced oblique grooves. On the other, there is a zone of similar grooving in the centre, but here there are two orientations of grooves crossing each other; a group of closely spaced oblique lines, and over the top a few more widely spaced grooves following the same …
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-9DE3D5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified object made from copper alloy, of uncertain date but possibly Iron Age or Roman. It appears to have been cast, but may have been hammered together from a rod of sub-circular or sub-rectangular cross-section. If so, the rod was bent in half, with a rounded loop at the bend (3.3mm internal diameter). The two halves then join (with a groove between them) before separating again. One prong is broken off after the fork, but the other diverges in a straight line, then begins to curve before a break. Both breaks are very worn. The resulting object measures 33mm from the loop…
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-1DE894
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy object, perhaps a mount. It is thin and flat, and consists of a rectangular plate 17.7mm x 15.0mm with a 7.2mm wide tab projecting from the centre of one long edge. The rectangular area has three decoratively shaped edges, each with a long convex curve in the centre. The long decorated edge has two small nicks to either side of this curve, creating three smaller outcurving scallops; the short decorated edges each have two nicks above and a single nick below.
The undecorated long edge has the projecting tab, which is decorated with six parallel grooves running to…
Created on: Friday 2nd September 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-1CC76D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of copper-alloy strip, flat and rectangular in cross-section, decorated on one face with a row of small stamped annulets, c. 1mm in diameter. They are evenly spaced, about 1.5mm apart, and flanked by a shallow border groove down one edge of the strip. At one end, the strip is bent forward and broken; the other end may be original. There is damage to the surface about halfway along, suggesting further front-to back bending has taken place. The strip curves very slightly to one side (so that the grooved border is along the convex curve) but this appears to be an original featu…
Created on: Friday 2nd September 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A920BD
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sub-square piece of copper-alloy sheet, now bent at a slight angle across. It measures 38mm long (parallel to the bend) and at least 36.5mm wide, and has a circular hole 3.7mm in diameter at one corner. This and one adjacent corner are neat right angles, and the sides are also neat here, but two other sides are more ragged. There is no obvious decoration. The sheet is 1.2mm thick and a pale green colour with patches of a corroded surface; it weighs 9.3g. Function unknown, but likely to be of Roman to medieval date.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A7F711
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy handle from an iron knife, razor or spatula. One end is sub-rectangular, 20.0mm wide, 8.8mm long and 5.5mm thick. There is a groove along the outer edge on both faces, but any other decoration is obscured by a lot of pitting where a corroded surface has been lost. The far side of the object has a scar from the iron blade; there is a tiny stub at each end, and a slim rectangular scar between measuring about 13mm long and 2mm thick. The iron is not obvious, but a magnet is attracted to the entire object, particularly at this end.
The …
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-71AB50
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified modern object, now in several pieces and apparently with no original edges. It is made from thin copper-alloy sheet or foil which has been pressed or stamped and coated with a white metal (perhaps tin or silver) on one face. The main piece is drop-shaped and apparently made up of several raised flat undecorated panels, separated by rows of beading.
A triple line of beading runs in a slight curve across the centre, separating the fragment into a triangular panel below and what may have been a semi-circular or D-shaped panel above. The D-shaped…
Created on: Monday 13th June 2022
Last updated: Friday 3rd March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-735932
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of partly gilded silver, with ornament in a chip-carved style, made by using a range of stamps or punches. It is flat and sub-rectangular, with one straight original long edge which is smooth and rounded in cross-section. The other edges are all rougher and more right-angled in cross-section; the remaining long edge is nearly straight, and the short edges are V-shaped and nearly parallel to each other. Under magnification it can be seen that most of the other edges are cut; the only broken edge appears to be part of the angled-in short edge (the upper part on…
Created on: Tuesday 8th March 2022
Last updated: Saturday 25th March 2023
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This findspot is known as 'near Diss', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-24BD8C
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified object made from at least partly gilded copper alloy, with decoration characteristic of the 8th century AD. The object is a truncated cone, now bent out of shape at the open base and with part of the base missing (slightly worn break). It tapers from an original c. 20mm diameter to a flat closed top c. 15-16mm in diameter, and is 25.5mm tall. The top has a circular hole c. 4mm in diameter set slightly off centre. The dimensions at the base, as now bent, are 23.0mm from the outside of the loop to the side opposite (17mm excluding the loop), and 27mm perpendic…
Created on: Tuesday 8th February 2022
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-8001AD
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified object made from silver (ungilded, despite the colour in the photograph). The upper part was originally hemispherical, but is now crushed. It is decorated with a ring-and-dot design which is in fact closer to a repoussé pellet within a double circular groove. In between are meandering lines of rocker-arm or wriggle-work, with pairs of parallel lines forming strapwork in places.
The hemispherical upper part has a ridge at its rim, then a separate soldered-on collar made from similar silver sheet. This is undecorated except for a slighter ridge near its open edge.
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Created on: Monday 31st January 2022
Last updated: Monday 31st January 2022
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-751047
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy object consisting of a circular-section rod c. 7mm in diameter, with worn ends which appear to originally have been squared off, not broken. One end might have been cut or otherwise shaped into three facets. It is shaped into a loose ring, originally perhaps c. 50-60mm in external diameter, but one end (the one with three possible facets) has been bent backwards to wrench the ring out of shape. Its unbent length is c. 200mm and it weighs 48.9g.
This object was found on the same field as a small hoard of Bronze Age items (2021T771) but it cannot be positively identifi…
Created on: Wednesday 1st December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-63B84D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Pair of flat lozenge-shaped objects made from thin silver sheet, with engraved decoration. One is complete, with two acute angles cut off to make squared ends, and two more obtuse angles. The squared-off ends each have an oval perforation. Decoration comprises a border line along the straight edges and shaped to run around the inner edge of the perforations, with a series of short straight lines within. In the very centre is a small lozenge filled with cross-hatching; around this, parallel to the edges, are four pairs of short dashes. The obtuse angles each have short rad…
Created on: Thursday 18th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-FC1F13
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Unidentified object made from silver, partly gilded and inlaid with niello. It has a flat circular top and short straight or slightly convex sides forming a hollow cylinder; the underneath and inside are undecorated and ungilded. One side is now bent inwards, and a deep crack has resulted.
The top is decorated with a reserved flat ungilded animal in profile, whose legs and tail dissolve into chip-carved interlace with plant elements. The animal is turned to the left, but the head is looking back over the shoulder to the right. The head has a sub-rectangular…
Created on: Friday 20th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-823EA1
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy unidentified object, of unknown date. It has one broken or possibly cut end, which is a flat hexagon or oval in cross-section. The other end is bifurcated, with each arm D-shaped in cross-section and tapering. The end of each arm is slightly expanded into an oval, rounded on the outside and flat on the inner face. Both ovals are pierced, and the holes are now blocked with hard soil, probably with some iron corrosion. The arms are not precisely symmetrical and at least one might have been bent outwards a little. Each arm is c. 16mm long and the total surviving length is 25…
Created on: Monday 1st February 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2B52F4
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete unidentified object. It is a short length of copper-alloy rod, broken at one end where the rectangular cross-section measures 5.4mm wide and 3.0mm thick. It then tapers in width and thickness to 4.4mm wide and 1.4mm thick, and is gently curved along its length, although this may not be original. Close to the broken end it is decorated on both larger faces with transverse grooves; one face (the convex face) has at least three neatly parallel grooves, and perhaps more now obscured by corrosion. The other (concave) face has perhaps two grooves, and they look worn Surviving le…
Created on: Wednesday 4th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-4D6BA7
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver object with niello inlay and Salin's Style I decoration dating it to the early Anglo-Saxon period. It is a heavy, three-dimensional object cast in one piece, perhaps imitating a buckle frame and pin, or alternatively a sword-ring.
The object is largely circular in shape, thick and tapering upwards to form a truncated cone which has a sunken centre devoid of decoration. This is crossed by a bar which drapes across the slopes of the cone, dipping down into the centre where it is crossed by a second shorter bar at right angles. The sides of the cone ar…
Created on: Friday 18th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'North Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-F9589D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cruciform or cross-shaped object made from copper alloy and now corroded. Three arms survive, all tapering from the centre both in width and thickness, and with D-shaped cross-sections. Two opposing arms are longer, giving a total length of 33.3mm. They appear to be broken at their ends (worn breaks. The shorter arm is definitely incomplete although the break is again worn; the missing arm has an unworn break. The upper face of the object is slightly convex, the underside slightly concave, with an equal curve to all the arms. There is no decoration, but there is an off-cent…
Created on: Monday 14th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-FA7C77
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of flat copper-alloy object, decorated on one face with cast openwork ornament. There are parts of two transversely beaded circles or ovals, perhaps 13mm in diameter, with the surviving areas set back to back. Within each of these are the remains of two circular holes, the best-preserved perhaps 3-4mm in diameter. Between the holes is a pellet, from which springs a spiral wire or ridge. These are mirror-image on each side, so that one circle contains a clockwise spiral and the other an anti-clockwise spiral. Outside the circles, to one side is an incomplete openwork perfo…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd September 2020
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-EA2D3C
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pointed object or fragment of object of cast copper alloy. The broken end is concave and although now worn, looks as if it was broken at a time when the metal was not brittle. It is pentagonal in cross-section at the break, with rounded angles; these facets run to the point, tapering gently and first and then more sharply, although with no obvious break of curve. There are longitudinal grooves on the more steeply tapering area which are irregular and appear more due to wear than to deliberate manufacture. Length 38.5mm, maximum cross-section c. 10mm across, weight 12.6g.
Created on: Thursday 20th August 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-E9FD7E
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy unidentified object, probably of late Iron Age or early Roman date. It is cast in one piece, sub-triangular and in the shape of an animal head, broken at both ends. The nose has a squared-off break which appears relatively unworn; it is oval in cross-section. A fine engraved line runs up the centre of the top of the muzzle from the break to where the eyes meet. The large eyes are two raised flat circular discs, each one around 10mm in diameter, and the head flares out to accommodate them. Behind the eyes, the other break is also not very worn. It cuts across a flat-topped…
Created on: Thursday 20th August 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8FC367
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Crumpled and perhaps incomplete piece of gold sheet. It appears roughly circular in shape, but has one original straight side with a slightly burred thickened edge. This edge was c. 23mm long but is now bent about halfway along, with one half irregularly folded back on itself. The disc has a straight, slightly raised repoussé band parallel to the straight side and probably at the object's widest point; the band is about 3.5mm wide. Between this band and the straight edge are four rounded repoussé bosses which look like deliberate decoration, and seem too regular to be c…
Created on: Thursday 4th June 2020
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Near Holme Hale', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-76E0E5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy and iron unidentified object. It is irregular in shape, sub-square or sub-oval; it measures about 20 x 21mm between edges, or 24 x 20mm between angles. It is a maximum of 15mm thick and weighs 28.40g. One face appears to have a copper-alloy border around square hollow in the centre filled with iron corrosion; the other face has iron corrosion all over it but with a strip of copper alloy running from one edge into the centre, and two corners of copper alloy. The sides appear to be largely copper alloy with a surface spread of iron corrosion. There cannot be much of an iron…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-26E97D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy unidentified object. It is flat and basically triangular, with two original edges joining at a right angle. The third edge is irregular and most of it is probably broken. The right angle is rounded, and decorated on one face with a stamped circle right at the tip flanked by two others; all three circles are off the object to some extent. Behind and between is a groove which runs to the centre of the irregular edge; its base is polished, as if by wear. There is a hint of a low ridge along both the original edges, and this extends a little beyond the broken edge at one corn…
Created on: Friday 6th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-51E974
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Chunky cast copper-alloy object of unknown date and function. It is largely rectangular, 35mm long and 24mm wide at the best-preserved short end. One long edge is 9mm thick, neatly right-angled and appears original. One face curves slightly from this long edge to the other, and the other curves much more strongly so that the whole object tapers in side view to a thin edge along the other long side. This may also be an original edge, or may be broken but worn; one corner is certainly damaged but very worn.
Across the centre of the object, between the long edges, runs a 9mm wide ba…
Created on: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D42B2D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy zoomorphic unidentified object in the shape of an animal head, perhaps a dog. The animal's head is at the end of a tapering conical socket, now slightly distorted but originally c. 14mm in diameter, with a single circular rivet or nail hole in one side (the right when the animal head is in front). The socket is 12mm deep and the rest of the shaft is solid, a total of c. 37mm long and tapering to 10mm in diameter.
The tapering shaft forms the neck of the animal and the object then flares out to form the head. This is well modelled and naturalistic, with long conical s…
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 24th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D39FAC
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified lead object, cast in one piece, now incomplete. It has a flat base, probably originally roughly circular, but much of this is now missing; what remains is variable in thickness, at most 3mm thick. The reverse is flat and featureless, but the upper surface has the remains of four ribs arranged in a cross shape. These are D-shaped in cross-section, and two survive well, one badly and one not at all. There is a rounded boss in the centre of the cross, c. 4mm in diameter, which brings the maximum thickness of the object to 7.5mm. At the end of the three surviving cross arms a…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-44F995
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Decorated copper-alloy object of unknown function. It is currently almost square, 18.5mm wide by 17mm long; the decoration suggests that three edges may be original and one longer edge broken. It is decorated with what may be stamps or fine engraving, not very neatly done. It is best described by holding the apparently complete longer edge downwards. This has decoration along it of a broad groove (perhaps 2mm wide) filled with small transverse ridges. Above this is a row of three feather or Christmas-tree shapes. with a vertical tapering trunk or shaft and many upward-pointing branche…
Created on: Friday 31st January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2FBA2B
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified and incomplete copper-alloy object of probable late medieval or early post-medieval date. It is thick and flat, and can be reconstructed to resemble a five-petalled flower or cinquefoil with a circular perforation. Only two of the petals now survive. They are almost identical, both being short and rounded with an engraved line running from the centre close to the edge, then turning a rounded obtuse angle to meet the circular perforation at an acute angle. Each is surrounded by three dots, one at the end of the engraved line near the edge of the petal and the others flanki…
Created on: Thursday 30th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-1B8345
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy object shaped like a reel. It is almost complete, with two circular ends, flat on both sides; both ends are 31-32mm in diameter and 2.5-2.5mm thick. One is missing a small portion and the break is a little worn. Both end discs have squared-off edges covered with closely spaced transverse grooves giving a ribbed effect. The grooves have been added by hand and are not all completely straight; in places there are groups where the orientation has become a bit oblique. The end discs are joined together by a short hollow cylindrical tube, bringing the overall length (or thickne…
Created on: Friday 17th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C5F27A
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded copper-alloy object, probably of 12th- or 13th century date. It consists of a cast front plate and a fragmentary sheet backplate, held together by two copper-alloy rivets. The cast front is basically U-shaped with parallel long sides and a lot of surviving gilding. Along the length of the U it is perforated by two complete neat circular holes, each 10mm in diameter. A third similar hole is cut across by a straight edge which is at a slight angle to the long edges; it is difficult to tell whether this edge is complete or very neatly broken and smoothly worn. The two rivets are i…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-A0C513
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy 'moustache-shaped' object, cast in one piece, of probable middle Bronze Age to Iron Age date. It has a central narrowed constriction, undecorated and with a vertical step down to it, which is curved on the top and has a rounded hollow on the underneath, c. 5mm in diameter. The constriction measures c. 5mm in thickness and 8mm in width. To either side is a thicker, tapering, drooping element, D-shaped in cross-section although slightly rounded rather than completely flat on the underside. The strongly curved upper surface of each half is decorated with worn ridges and groo…
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-7AE4E5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy unidentified object of post-medieval date. One end has several breaks but the object seems largely complete; it is now in two pieces, but was originally cast in one piece. One piece consists of two prongs joined together at the top by a pair of curves, the backs of the curves downwards (towards the points of the prongs). All of the edges are bevelled. The join between the two curves continues upwards but is broken here. Above the break, the hexagonal cross-section gives way to a series of circular-section mouldings, with a spike projecting from the centre of the first, at…
Created on: Monday 16th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-78627D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy object with two arms and a central loop. One arm is complete, trapezoidal in cross-section, tapering slightly in width to a ridged collar and then a rounded terminal. The other is incomplete, broken before the terminal; the break is fairly fresh. The complete arm measures 4 x 4mm at the junction with the loop and tapers to 4mm thick and 2.5mm wide just before the terminal. The incomplete arm is slightly larger, measuring 4mm high and 5mm wide at the junction with the loop and tapering less. On the reverse of the incomplete arm, about halfway along, is a transverse groove;…
Created on: Monday 16th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-541E8A
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Narrow strip of copper alloy, pointed-oval in cross-section and a maximum of 4.5mm wide. It tapers gently to either end, both of which are broken. One face is highly polished, with many irregular longitudinal scratches. The other is rougher, but has four transverse grooves at one end and is broken at what may be a fifth. Length 61mm, thickness 1mm, weight 1.89g. Date and function unknown.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: CAM-F9AE65
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy disc, 27 mm in diameter and 4 mm thick. In the centre of one face is a circular boss 8 mm in diameter, surrounded by a broad groove. There is a border around with relief decoration of eight stylised leaves, probably derived from acanthus leaf ornament. The other face is flat and undecorated with no apparent means of attachment. The decoration looks broadly neo-classical and so the object is probably 18th century, but its function is uncertain. 19.24g.
Created on: Monday 22nd June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SF9241
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy, in form very similar to the 'lyre-shaped' buckles used in the 15th century. It is openwork and roughly oval in outline. One end has a basically rectangular perforation and the other end has two oval perforations; these combine to form the 'lyre' shape. One of the short edges of the rectangular perforation (nearest the ovals) is incurved and has rounded corners. Beyond the two oval perforations is a terminal, now probably incomplete, formed from two back-to-back scrolls with a triangular perforation in between. There are two other areas o…
Created on: Thursday 5th September 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'STOCKTON', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF9205
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery disc, 24 mm in diameter and 5 mm thick, perhaps a counter or playing piece. One face has a large incuse letter D, with VIII in smaller lettering below. The fabric is a fine red earthenware with ferrous inclusions; this type of fabric could have been made almost anywhere in England, so gives little help in identification. The inscription could be deciphered as eight pennyweight, but in fact the disc weighs 4.47g, which is 2.87 dwt. Probably post-medieval.
Created on: Friday 23rd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WITHERSFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF9206
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified copper-alloy object. One end has a long pyramidal terminal, tapering from a maximum cross-section of 4 x 3.5 mm. Below the widest point the object then tapers again slightly to a collar, below which its cross-section is circular. The circular shaft tapers quite quickly and is bent into a loop; it ends at a globular terminal. The object is quite worn and corroded, but it appears to be complete, and the bend does not appear to have caused any stress to the metal. Date and function unknown, but it does not appear to be modern. Unbent length c. 45 mm; existing length 23 mm.
Created on: Friday 23rd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WITHERSFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.
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